The phenomenon of false memories has stimulated much research and debate over the years, particularly due to the implications they have had within the legal system . Before discussing the implications and impacts that false memories can have, it is important to review what is known about the factors at play in creating false memories. Simply put, “false memories tend to occur when people are pushed to imagine missing details” (Gluck, Mercado, Myers, 2014). An individual may continue to remember the imagined details of a fragmented memory as true (which is a kind of memory misattribution), and if he continues to rehearse, imagine, or review the faulty concept in his mind, the more likely this is to happen. be encoded in their memory as true (Gluck, Mercado, Myers,